My wife is convinced that I have the strangest friends on the planet. She may well be correct. They are all unique in their own way. Some write, some sing, some are happiest in front of the camera, and some behind the camera. Some are famous, some are infamous, and some are people that no-one [...]

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This is a guest article by author D. Alan Johnson. His latest book Asgaard is set in Africa and looks at the role of Private Military Contractors. David himself is a Military Contractor and has been since 1988. We were talking recently about life in general, and the world as a whole. I invited him [...]

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“Anticipation! Anticipation! Is making me late. Is keeping me waiting.” Is perhaps the best song by Carly Simon that incorporates all of my personal sentiments regarding the Advent season. Indeed, Advent is the greatest period of anticipation before the celebration of the birth of the Messiah at Christmas. Advent is not only anticipation, but it [...]

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Black ‘Tuesday’ In four days millions of Americans will be facing black ‘Tuesday’ — November 30 when unemployment benefits begin to run out. If the Republicans stick to their game plan of freezing our budgets, little can be done to rescue millions of Americans unemployed, cut off from monies for basics — food and their [...]

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This is utter rubbish: The usual epidemiological speculation combined with assuming what you have to prove. As far as I can tell, all that these do-gooder Swedish epidemiologists did was look at areas where a lot of people smoked and then looked at illness in those places. And, Hey Presto! Places where a lot of [...]

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